RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada's Republican candidate for governor says that if he could, he would "go back and knock some sense" into the "drunk teenager" he was more than 20 years ago when he was arrested for assaulting a police officer in Virginia.
Adam Laxalt, Nevada's attorney general, released a statement to The Associated Press on Monday after records obtained by the Reno Gazette-Journal showhe was taken into custody for underage drinking in 1996.
Nevada Democratic Party Chairman William McCurdy II is calling on Laxalt to release his bar association application and full criminal record following the newspaper's report.
Laxalt is running for governor against Democrat Steve Sisolak. Sisolak campaign spokesman Gringsby Crawford declined to comment.
Laxalt's campaign declined to comment on the request for release of his full criminal record.